How have medical professionals been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total daily mentions of doctors, nurses and "medical professionals" since the start of the pandemic across BBC News London, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, showing a sharp surge in early March 2020 that peaks at the end of the month and sharply declines from the start of April 2020. The peak number of mentions occurred at the start of October 2020, when President Trump tested positive. Since the start of 2021, mentions have remained fairly steady, with no surges during the peaks of the Delta or Omicron variants.